Is this America or what?

 The licensing company that controls the image of Elvis Presley has forbidden Las Vegas wedding chapels to perform any more Elvis-themed weddings.  

The Country Music Association announced a ban on Confederate flags and related imagery at its festival in Nashville next week.

Michigan prisons have banned Spanish and Swahili dictionaries so that inmates cannot learn to speak freely in front of staff in these "very obscure languages" without being understood.  Thirteen percent of Americans speak Spanish as their first language.

Get ready to duck when the right flings its crap over "woke" Popeye this Sunday.  Apparently it emphasizes his willingness to...help people.

A mob of "Christian fascists" (their own description) tried to invade an LGBTQ establishment in Dallas, yelling "Groomers!"  Meanwhile Empty Greene tried to calm fears about what she calls "Christian nationalism," which wants to solve all social problems by compelling Americans to be Christian.  They're not even prettying it up by saying "Judeo-Christian" anymore.  Anyone who won't play is to be designated a "domestic terrorist."

The Indianapolis Children's Museum had to issue an apology after offering watermelon salad as part of its Juneteenth commemoration menu.  The museum blames its food service provider.

Marines.  The few.  The proud.  The fabulous.  The Corps is angering people with this image for Pride Month:

Maybe go back to "Don't ask, don't tell."

Retired Judge John Roemer was shot and killed in his Wisconsin home by a man who also killed himself, leaving an extensive if confusing list of apparent targets that included Governors Tony Evers and Gretchen Whitmer and Senator Mitch McConnell.  Roemer had sentenced the assassin to six years for armed burglary.  On the same day Jerome Felipe of Flint, Michigan, was arrested in Washington after trying to enter the Capitol with a BB gun and a lot of real ammo.  He had a badge identifying him as a criminal investigator from "Department of the INTERPOL."

A few days after the Tulsa shootings, a doctor and two nurses were stabbed at Encino Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, which proves why gun laws do no good and we shouldn't even bother.

A 911 dispatcher in Buffalo was fired for hanging up on Latisha Rogers, assistant manager of Tops Supermarket, as she begged for help.  The operator yelled at Rogers for whispering while ten people were being killed.  Rogers called a friend and asked him to call 911.  Last week a woman had a heart attack while attending a party for one of the Tops survivors.  Another guest called 911 and was also cut off, presumably by a different dispatcher.

Some researchers are studying schizophrenia in plants.  Evidently we share with plants a little something called Friendly Mitochondria, so it's not as daft as it seems.

A music teacher in British Columbia drove a bear away from the school's trash cans by playing a trombone.  See?  You don't need a gun!